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program 


FIRST  UNITED  BRETHREN  CHURCH 
Dayton,  Ohio 

Thursday,  May  2,   10:00  a.m. 

President  J.  P.  Landis,  D.D.,  Ph.D.,  Presiding 

Music 

Prayer — Rev.  D.  Berger,  D.D. 

Introductory — By  Chairman 

Address — "Reminiscences  of  Forty-One  Years  of  Seminary 

Life" Prof.  G.  A.  Funkhouser,  D.D. 

Music 

Address — "Relation  of  the  Seminary  to  the  Denomination" 

Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews,  D.D. 

Greetings — Rev.  H.  J.  Christman,  D.D.,  President  Central  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Rev.  David  Van  Horn,  D.D.,  Central  Theological  Seminary. 

Rev.  E.  H.  Caylor,  D.D.,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

Rev.  J.  E.  H.  Sentman,  Williamsburg,  Ohio. 
Benediction — President  H.  J.  Christman. 


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Hon.  John  M.  Bonebrake 


Introductory  Words 

J.  P.  Landis,  D.D.,  Ph.D. 

The  crying  need  of  our  Church  to-day,  as  of  other  churches,  is 
for  strong  and  qualified  leaders.    The  call  is  for  efficiency. 

The  world  is  forging  ahead  with  rapid  strides  in  commerce,  dis- 
covery, invention,  in  its  material,  social,  and  political  interests,  and 
the  Church  is  in  danger  of  falling  behind ;  indeed,  some  claim 
that  she  is  quite  behind  now.  Said  an  intelligent  speaker  re- 
cently, "The  world  has  moved  too  fast  for  the  Church." 

Have  the  intellectual,  moral,  and  religious  interests  of  society 
kept  up  with  the  tremendous  development  and  onrush  of  material 
things?  Dr.  Josiah  Strong  declared  several  years  ago  that  the 
"intellectual  and  moral  progress  has  by  no  means  kept  pace  with 
material  development." 

Yet  there  is  no  lack  of  activity  and  activities  in  the  Church.  As 
Dr.  Kirkland,  president  of  the  Religious  Education  Association, 
said  recently  in  St.  Louis :  "Religious  work  is  going  on  to-day 
with  never  flagging  zeal.  The  churches  are  extending  their  sweep 
and  sway,  scattering  their  literature  thick  as  leaves  that  fall  in 
Vallombrosa,  sounding  sermons  in  endless  reiteration." 

There  are  societies  and  organizations  almost  innumerable, 
agencies  galore,  but  there  is  a  lack  of  power.  Now,  every  Chris- 
tian can  point  us  to  the  true,  ultimate  source  of  power,  the  Holy 
Spirit,  but  divine  power,  like  all  other  kinds  of  power,  works 
through  agencies  and  instruments,  and,  ordinarily,  even  the  Holy 
Spirit  seems  to  be  limited  and  handicapped  by  weak  or  inadequate 
instruments.  As  in  business,  as  in  commerce,  as  in  war,  so  in  the 
Church  and  the  religious  world,  zeal,  activity,  enthusiasm  must 
be  directed  and  controled  by  wise  and  skillful  leadership. 

Naturally  in  the  Church  the  bulk  of  this  leadership  must  lie  in 
the  ministry.  Religion  is  their  avocation  as  well  as  their  vocation. 
If  they  do  not,  they  should  possess  the  qualifications  to  initiate, 
inspire,  and  direct  Christian  activities  and  conduct  them  to  mas- 
terful issues. 

Leadership  implies  the  elements  of  intelligence,  wisdom,  knowl- 
edge, zeal,  skill.  It  consists  not  in  mere  preaching  ability.  The 
minister  of  to-day  must  not  be  less  a  preacher  than  heretofore. 
There  must  be  no  justification  of  the  criticism  that  the  pulpit  is 

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weak  or  behind  the  times,  that  the  preacher  is  dealing  with 
effete  themes,  or  handling  the  most  important  subjects  with  feeble- 
ness and  perfunctorily.  But  it  is  not  enough  to  be  a  strong 
pulpit  man,  an  orator,  he  must  be  a  teacher,  an  administrator, 
an  organizer,  a  model  among  men,  a  leader. 

Still,  knowledge  and  intellectual  force  and  grasp  must  lie  at  the 
basis  of  his  work.  He  should  be  a  scholar,  especially  a  Biblical 
and  theological  scholar.  But  it  were  a  mistake  to  lay  the  stress 
on  scholarship  alone.  He  must  also  have  zeal,  enthusiasm,  energy, 
drive,  but  these  controled  and  directed  by  intelligence  and 
knowledge. 

Every  man,  also,  to  insure  his  fullest  measure  of  success,  must 
have  his  professional  training.  Many  men  do  well  who  might 
be  doing  much  better.  It  goes  without  saying,  other  things  be- 
ing equal,  prolonged  and  rigid  training,  schooling,  will  make 
a  man  more  powerful,  more  efficient. 

The  idea  is  the  securing  of  strong  religious  leaders,  especially 
for  the  purposes  of  the  present  consideration,  in  the  ministry.  As 
President  Kirkland  said  in  St.  Louis :  "It  is  no  accident  that 
produces  our  commercial  leaders  of  to-day.  Our  engineers  have 
gone  through  long  courses  of  instruction  before  they  undertake  to 
open  a  mine  or  lay  a  railroad  track.  Our  generals  have  the  best 
guidance  that  science  and  experience  can  furnish  before  they 
undertake  to  direct  an  army.  Our  physicians  are  not  allowed 
with  careless  indifference  or  ignorance  to  trifle  with  life  or  health. 
.  .  .  The  lesson  of  the  century  is  in  the  field  of  education ; 
the  one  universal  call  is  for  training." 

Education  for  ministerial  efficiency  is  a  need  to  which  onr 
Church  has  not  yet  given  adequate  heed.  Our  Church  is  not  top- 
heavy.  Not  many  men  among  us  have  been  ruined  by  excess  of 
intellectuality.  We  are  not  yet  troubled  with  superfluity  of  learn- 
ing. Our  salvation  and  usefulness  have  not  at  any  time  been 
imperiled  by  the  damnation  of  culture. 

No  work  in  any  church  is  more  fundamental  or  has  priority 
of  importance  over  that  for  which  the  theological  seminary  stands. 
Its  importance  is  not  yet  seen  or  felt  by  the  mass  of  our  people. 
I  repeat,  the  crying  need  of  the  Church  and  the  churches  is 
strong  and  thoroughly  qualified  leaders.  No  church  rises  higher 
than  her  ministry.  If  the  ministry  is  weak,  the  church  will  be 
weak ;  if  the  ministry  is  ignorant,  the  church  will  not  be  charged 
with  intelligence ;  if  the  ministry  is  effusive  or  fanatical,  so  will 
the  people  be.     "Like  priest,  like  people." 

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Since  the  founding  of  the  Seminary,  407  have  graduated,  in- 
cluding the  present  class.  As  many  more  have  been  here  a 
longer  or  shorter  time. 

Many  of  the  most  responsible  positions  in  the  Church  are  filled 
by  our  graduates.  Quite  a  number  have  gone  to  mission  fields. 
Not  a  few  of  our  strongest  churches  are  being  served  by  others. 
The  influence  of  the  Seminary  is  felt  throughout  the  denomina- 
tion, but  our  aspiration  is  that  in  the  future  she  may  be  a  far 
greater  power  for  good.  She  must  stand  for  and  do  all  she  can 
to  provide  a  strong,  consecrated,  godly  ministry.  The  Church 
must  put  the  institution  in  material  endowment  and  equipment, 
when  she  can  do  her  full  part  toward  supplying  this  greatest  need 
of  the  Church. 


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Reminiscences 

To  the  Seminary  and  to  this  Church,  October  11,  1871,  will 
forever  be  a  notable  day,  for  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day  it 
was  the  privilege  of  about  seventy-five  of  our  ministers  and 
members  to  witness  the  opening  exercises  of  Union  Biblical  Sem- 
inary in  what  was  then  Home  Street  United  Brethren  Church, 
now  Summit  Street  Church, 

The  Senior  Bishop,  J.  J.  Glossbrenner,  presiding,  read  II.  Tim- 
othy, chapter  second,  and  announced  Hymn  383  (by  Isaac  Watts), 
especially  appropriate  to  the  occasion  of  starting  a  new  enterprise. 

"  Praise,  everlasting  praise,  be  paid 
To  Him  that  earth's  foundation  laid ; 
Praise  to  the  God  whose  strong  decrees 
Sway  the  creation  as  he  please. 


Oh,  for  a  strong,  a  lasting  faith 
To  credit  what  the  Almighty  saith ! 
To  embrace  the  message  of  his  Son 
And  call  the  joys  of  heaven  our  own." 


Having  offered  an  earnest  prayer,  the  Bishop  introduced  Rev. 
L.  Davis,  D.D.,  senior  professor,  who  delivered  a  formal  address, 
saying  in  part :  "The  time  has  come  for  the  opening  of  the 
Seminary.  Yes,  it  has  come,  but  not  a  moment  too  soon.  Many 
of  our  members  have  long  prayed  to  see  this  day,  and  lo,  it  is 
here!  In  fact  the  whole  Church  has  long  felt  the  need  of  an 
institution  of  this  kind." 

He  defined  its  object  to  be  "a  better  educated  and  more  conse- 
crated ministry,  the  most  pressing  need  of  all" ;  declared  "the 
Church  and  the  world  demanded  it,"  that  "other  denominations 
will  watch  us.  .  .  .  God  is  the  starting  point.  His  word  is  pre- 
eminent. .  .  The  high  purpose  of  the  founders  of  this  Seminary 
is  to  be  co-workers  with  God  in  raising  up  and  sending  forth  able 

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ministers  of  the  New  Testament.  .  .  .  The  work  of  the  preacher 
is  not  narrow,  technical,  and  confined.  No,  no,  it  is  as  broad  as 
human  wants.  It  takes  hold  of  man  as  man  and  all  there  is  of 
him.  .  .  .  This,  then,  is  the  sum  of  all  our  aim,  namely,  "To  make 
men  wise  and  holy,  for  God  was  manifest  in  the  flesh." 

The  writer,  then  the  junior  professor,  was  called  upon  and  is 
reported  to  have  said :  "We  may  confidently  hope  that  under  the 
divine  blessing  this  Seminary  may,  in  coming  time,  not  only  do 
a  humble  part  in  the  enlightenment  of  our  country,  but  send 
out  its  light  beyond,  proving  a  blessing  even  to  distant  lands.  It 
has  been  said  that  posthumous  fame  is  best  attained  in  founding  in- 
stitutions of  learning.  This  is  true ;  and  you  who  have  been  engaged 
in  founding  this  Seminary  are  doing  a  work  for  which  after  gen- 
erations will  rise  up  and  call  you  blessed.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
the  means  and  prayers  of  the  Church  will  be  freely  given  for 
the  building  up  of  this  institution.  The  founding  of  the  Semin- 
ary is  a  step  forward  for  the  Church.  It  could  not  and  would 
not  go  backward.    The  future  will  be  one  of  continued  progress." 

After  prayer  by  Rev.  W.  J.  Shuey,  who  did  much  in  the  General 
Conference  of  1869  to  bring  about  such  an  institution,  remarks 
were  made  by  Rev.  J.  P.  Landis,  pastor  of  the  church,  and  Rev. 
D.  Berger,  secretary  of  the  executive  committee.  The  next  morn- 
ing five  men  enrolled  as  students :  Wra.  Dillon,  E.  H.  Caylor,  S. 
L.  Livingston,  J.  E.  H.  Sentman,  a  Methodist,  and  W.  J.  Pruner, 
all  living  to-day.  Six  others  entered  later,  making  eleven  students 
the  first  year,  eight  of  whom  graduated  three  years  later,  1874. 
Of  these  all  are  living  except  one,  Rev.  J.  D.  Holtzinger,  who 
died  June  4,  1907,  having  been  in  the  ministry  fifty-four  years. 

A  number  of  this  class  served  as  pastors  while  in  attendance, 
and  one  of  them  at  least,  W.  J.  Pruner,  now  of  Chicago,  did 
not  miss  any  recitation  or  exercise  during  three  years. 

The  attendance  went  far  beyond  Bishop  Edward's  dream ; 
namely,  that  "the  Seminary  would  have  three  professors  and  one 
student."  Another  Seminary  opened  three  weeks  later  with  four 
professors  and  four  students. 

Since  that  historic  day,  October  11,  1871,  407  have  graduated 
and  about  as  many  more  have  taken  partial  courses,  so  that  be- 
tween 800  and  900  have  been  helped  to  a  larger  vision  and  to 
greater  efficiency  in  their  life  work  by  this  institution. 

What  kind  of  soil  and  atmosphere  had  this  tree  bearing  so 
much  fruit  for  forty-one  years,  and  seed  after  its  kind  growing 
into  other  fruit-bearing  trees,  and  their  seed  into  other  trees, 
and  these  in  turn  into  others,  and  on  and  on?  The  last  one  of 
former  students  to  enter  into  his  rest,  though  not  an  alumnus. 

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brought  2,200  into  the  Church,  17  entering  the  ministry,  and  has 
given  to  the  world  a  son  of  international  reputation  as  a  Chris- 
tian worker. 

What  reception  had  this  new  child  of  the  Church?  It  had  no 
lineage,  no  inheritance,  not  even  a  dollar,  not  a  foot  of  ground, 
not  a  building  to  shelter  it,  not  even  a  brick,  not  a  book,  and  no 
home.     Its  only  asset  was  faith  and  hope. 

Besides  its  poverty  in  material  things,  it  was  not  very  welcome. 
The  atmosphere,  too,  was  not  warm.  A  good  many  looked  unlov- 
ingly  at  the  little  creature  expecting,  not  to  say  hoping,  it  would 
die  an  early  death,  and  that  they  would  be  at  the  funeral. 

True,  conferences  passed  resolutions,  and  ministers  gave  the 
money  to  enable  it  to  live  the  first  year ;  but  the  people  were 
curious  rather  than  warmly  sympathetic,  for  as  yet  they  had  made 
no  sacrifice  for  it.  They  did  not  understand  how  this  poor  child 
would,  in  a  few  years,  minister  to  their  highest  welfare  in  every 
way,  so  that  they  were  indifferent  rather  than  appreciative. 

There  was  no  organized,  active,  certainly  no  open  hostility, 
but  very  little  concern  for  the  school  and  its  success. 

And  no  wonder !  When  Carey,  100  years  ago,  started  to  evan- 
gelize the  people  of  India,  the  vast  majority  of  the  followers  of 
Christ  in  England  did  not  believe  that  the  Lord  would  counte- 
nance such  an  expedition,  if,  indeed,  they  did  not  think  that 
Carey's  mission  was  in  direct  opposition  to  the  plans  of  the 
Master. 

The  sixteenth  century  did  not  want  Luther,  nor  the  times  want 
Jesus,  Paul,  Wesley,  or  Philip  William  Otterbein.  So  the 
Church  forty-one  years  ago  did  not  particularly  want  the  Sem- 
inary ;  but  it  needed  it  and  God  supplied  the  need. 

For  two  years,  1871-1873,  it  was  under  the  control  of  the  Board 
of  Education,  consisting  of  ten  members.  This  board,  in  its 
annual  session,  August  1,  1871,  had  heard  an  ably  prepared  paper, 
"The  Schools  of  the  Prophets,"  by  Dr.  H.  A.  Thompson,  in  the 
First  Church,  Dayton,  and  met  August  2  in  the  mission  rooms 
and  elected  the  first  theological  faculty.  Dr.  Lewis  Davis,  eighteen 
years  president  of  Otterbein  University,  as  senior  professor,  and 
G.  A.  Funkhouser,  a  recent  graduate  of  Western  Theological 
Seminary,  as  the  second  professor.  It  also*  authorized  the  execu- 
tive committee  to  secure  the  services  of  Rev.  J.  P.  Landis,  a  re- 
cent graduate  of  Lane  Theological  Seminary,  to  assist  in  the 
teaching,  the  two  professors  to  remunerate  him  by  preaching  for 
him. 

Dr.  Davis  was  a  polished  Christian  gentleman,  of  impressive 
personality,   force   of   character,   fine   social   qualities,     a    strong 

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preacher,  with  scholarly  inclinations,  which,  from  stress  of  cir- 
cumstances in  early  life  and  from  practical  activities  in  later  life, 
he  was  never  able  to  carry  out  as  desired.  Nevertheless,  he  com- 
manded the  respect  and  love  of  those  who  sat  under  him  as 
teacher  of  Systematic  Theology. 

For  thirteen  years  he  held  the  position  as  senior  professor, 
then  he  was  made  professor  emeritus,  and  the  writer  was  chosen 
senior  professor,  continuing  in  that  relation  for  the  next  twenty- 
two  years. 

At  the  end  of  three  years,  1874,  Miami  Conference  having  ap- 
pointed Rev.  J.  P.  Landis  to  another  charge,  Rev.  R.  Wahl  was 
elected  professor  of  Hebrew  and  Church  History  for  one  year. 
His  successor  was  Rev.  George  Keister,  a  recent  graduate  from 
Princeton  Seminary,  who,  after  serving  four  years,  died,  and  Dr. 
Landis  was  called  in  1880  from  a  fruitful  pastorate  at  German- 
town  to  take  the  chair  of  Hebrew,  which  he  has  filled  with  ability 
ever  since,  being  made  dean  of  the  Faculty,  May,  1907,  and 
president  of  the  Seminary  in  1910.  From  1886  to  1891  he  also 
held  the  chair  of  Systematic  Theology. 

Upon  the  death  of  Prof.  Keister  in  1880,  the  Faculty  was 
strengthened  by  the  election  of  Rev.  A.  W.  Drury,  of  Iowa,  a 
graduate  of  the  Seminary  in  1877,  a  man  peculiarly  fitted  by 
nature  and  grace  for  Church  history,  then  made  a  separate  de- 
partment. 

In  1891,  Rev.  J.  W.  Etter,  D.D.,  was  elected  to  the  chair  of 
Systematic  Theology,  but  because  of  failing  health  was  not  per- 
mitted to  serve  an  entire  year,  and  died  March  28,  1905. 

In  1893,  Rev.  Samuel  D.  Faust,  of  Pennsylvania  Conference, 
class  of  1884,  a  man  of  keen  intellect  and  strong  convictions,  was 
elected  to  the  chair  of  Church  history,  Professor  Drury  having 
been  in  1892  transferred  to  the  chair  of  Systematic  Theology. 

Twelve  years  later,  1905,  a  new  department  was  opened,  that 
of  Religious  Pedagogy,  and  Rev.  Walter  G.  Clippinger,  class  of 
1903,  was  elected  to  fill  this  chair,  which  he  did  with  ability  for 
four  years,  when  he  was  asked  to  take  the  presidency  of  Otter- 
bein  University.  Rev.  J.  G.  Huber,  D.D.,  class  of  1890.  for  nine- 
teen years  a  successful  pastor,  was  chosen  to  take  the  chair  in 
August,  1909,  and  two  years  ago,  Rev.  J.  Balmer  Showers,  Erie 
Conference,  class  of  1910,  to  this  date  on  leave  of  absence  (one 
year  abroad)  in  further  preparation,  and  one  year  ago,  while 
studying  in  Germany,  Rev.  W.  A.  Weber,  Ohio  German  Confer- 
ence, class  of  1909,  were  made  members  of  the  Faculty.  Both 
are  men  of  ability  and  promise.     In  forty-one  years  there  has 

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been  but  one  resignation  to  enter  other  work,  and  but  one  death 
while  in  active  service  as  teachers. 

Be  it  recorded  that  there  has  always  been  the  utmost  harmony 
in  the  Faculty,  each  member  contributing  his  best  to  build  up  the 
institution,  much  of  this  broad-minded  courtesy  coming  from  "the 
father  of  higher  education  in  the  Church,"  the  large-hearted, 
courteous,  dignified  Dr.  Lewis  Davis,  the  first  head  of  the  Faculty, 
a  gentleman  of  the  old  school. 

THE  PHYSICAL  LIFE  OF  THE  SEMINARY. 

Born  in  poverty,  without  a  home,  and  with  nothing  to  subsist 
upon  even  for  a  day  except  faith  in  God,  for  eight  years  the 
Seminary  found  shelter  in  five  small  rooms  in  the  basement  of 
Summit  Street  Church. 

Its  first  material  possession^  the  gift  of  Rev.  John  Kemp,  of 
Miami  Conference,  a  man  used  of  God,  optimistic,  in  some  re- 
spects a  promoter,  living  in  advance  of  his  day,  was  a  donation 
of  four  acres  of  ground,  valued  at  $10,000,  now  at  $30,000.  The 
circumstances  in  which  this  donation  came  were  peculiar  in  this, 
that,  having  purposed  it  when  he  was  prosperous,  he  performed  it 
when  he  was  poor.  Like  Jephthah  he  had  opened  his  mouth  to 
the  Lord,  and  he  could  not  go  back.  Let  the  Church  hold  in 
honor  the  name  of  John  Kemp  and  Mrs.  Ann  Kemp,  his  wife, 
whose  generosity  made  this  gift  possible. 

This  man  of  God  believed  the  word:  "Pay  that  which  thou  hast 
vowed.  Better  that  thou  shouldst  not  vow,  than  thou  shouldst 
vow  and  not  pay." 

Having  now  some  ground,  the  mother  of  the  Seminary,  the 
Church,  loved  it  enough,  deemed  it  large  enough,  useful  enough,  to 
have  a  home  all  to  itself,  and  so  in  the  eighth  year  of  its  age, 
1878,  built  this  substantial,  well  adapted  building,  costing  less 
than  $10,500,  including  furnishings,  which,  with  a  few  changes, 
has  been  its  home  ever  since. 

How  glad  Faculty  and  students  were  to  leave  those  little 
church  rooms,  one  of  which  I  know  was  always  dark,  dingy, 
and  damp,  to  get  into  the  commodious,  sunlit,  airy  rooms  of  the 
new  building! 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  in  the  forty-one  years,  100  different  per- 
sons, not  counting  the  Bishops,  who  are  ex-officio  members  of 
the  Board,  have  been  called  to  minister  to  the  physical  well-being 
of  the  institution,  eight  business  managers,  about  30  field  agents, 
80  men  elected  by  General  Conferences  as  directors,  and  still 
others  who  served  on  executive  committees. 

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General  agents  or  business  managers  have  been : 

Rev.  John  Kemp 1871—1874 

Rev.  Samuel  Hippard 1874—1879 

Rev.  W.  J.  Primer 1879—1881 

S.  L.  Herr,  Esq 1881—1885 

Rev.  D.  R.  Miller,  D.D 1885—1897 

Rev.  W.  J.  Shuey,  D.D 1897—1901 

Rev.  C.  M.  Brooke,  D.D 1901—1909 

Rev.  J.  E.  Fout,  D.D 1909— 

Notwithstanding  the  long  list  of  care-takers,  chiefs  of  staff, 
doctors,  nurses,  attendants,  the  child  did  not  grow  strong  physi- 
cally as  desired,  and  as  its  years  warranted ;  indeed,  its  honor,  if 
not  its  very  existence  was  in  jeopardy  in  its  twenty-fifth  year  by 
reason  of  a  cancerous  debt  (more  than  $60,000)  long  eating  its 
way  towards  the  vital  organs. 

Under  the  Business  Manager,  Rev.  D.  R.  Miller,  the  entire 
Church  was  called  in  to  witness  and  assist  in  the  removal  of  the 
monster  growth.  The  successful,  gratifying  operation  was  cele- 
brated in  the  silver  jubilee,  twenty-fifth  anniversary,  held  in  the 
Seminary  building,  1896. 

The  crucial  period  was  now  passed  forever  as  was  fondly  hoped. 
However,  because  of  inability  to  collect  some  of  the  obligations 
taken  throughout  the  Church,  and  the  depreciation  of  notes,  in 
five  years  again  there  was  a  debt  of  more  than  $30,000.  Stronger 
and  more  loving  than  ever,  the  anxious  mother  travailed  in  pain 
the  third  time  for  the  life  and  healthy  growth  of  her  offspring, 
now  past  thirty  years  of  age,  and  able  to  render  more  service 
than  ever.  In  a  few  months  that  debt  was  canceled,  since  which 
time  the  policy  of  pay-as-you-go  has  been  the  watchword,  and  has 
proved  beneficial. 

One  thing  that  retarded  rapid  growth  and  was  in  part  respon- 
sible for  threatening  debts,  was  family  dissension  and  alienation  of 
parental  authority  over  the  secrecy  questiop,  1881-1889,  so  that 
the  institution  did  not  get  the  proper  care. 

The  celebration  of  the  thirty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  founding 
of  the  Union  Biblical  Seminary  took  place  in  Summit  Street 
United  Brethren  Church,  Dayton,  Ohio,  October  9  and  10,  at 
7  :  30,  1906.     The  following  program  was  rendered  : 


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program 

October  9,  7 :30  p.m. 

"Come,  Thou,  Almighty  King" Congregation 

Reading  of  the  Word  of  God. 

Prayer. 

Music Quartet 

"History  of  the  Seminary,"  Rev.  J.  P.  Landis,  D.D.,  Ph.D.,  Sec- 
retary of  Faculty. 

Greeting  from  the  Present  Student  Body,  Rev.  M.  O.  McLaugh- 
lin, of  Senior  Class. 

"The  Seminary's  Relation  to  the  Young  People  of  the  Church," 
Rev.  J.  G.  Huber,  D.D.,  President  Y.  P.  C.  U. 

Music Quartet 

"The   Seminary's  Relation  to    the    Unevangelized,"  Rev.   S.   S. 
Hough,  D.D.,  Secretary  Foreign  Board. 

"The  Seminary  and  the  Supply  of  Efficient  Pastors,"  Bishop  G. 
M.  Mathews,  D.D.,  Chicago,  Illinois. 

Music Quartet 

Benediction. 

October  10,  7 :  30  p.m. 

Music Congregation 

Responsive  Reading  of  the  Word  of  God. 

Prayer. 

Music Quartet 

"Immediate  Material  Demands,"  Rev.  C.  M.  Brooke,  D.D.,  Busi- 
ness Manager. 

"The  College  and  Seminary,"  Rev.  C.  J.  Kephart,  D.D.,  Toledo, 
Iowa,  President  Leander  Clark  College. 

Music Quartet 

"The  Seminary  as  a  Unifying  and   Impelling  Spiritual  Force," 
Rev.  G.  D.  Gossard,  class  1896,  Baltimore,  Md. 

"Responsibility  of  the  Church  to  the  Seminary  of  the   Future," 
Rev.  H.  H.  Font,  D.D..  Editor  Sunday-School  Literature. 

Music Congregation 

Benediction. 

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The  purpose  of  this  celebration  was  to  call  attention  to  the  in- 
stitution in  order  that  the  Church  might  more  fully  appreciate  it 
and  render  the  support  its  importance  and  needs  demanded.  It 
was  in  this  period  that  it  was  thought  that  a  new  building  was 
a  possibility  and  that  the  erection  of  it — some  new  departure — 
would  inspire  the  denomination  to  give  greater  emphasis  to  a 
prepared  ministry. 

The  celebration  had  a  good  effect,  but  we  are  thankful  that  the 
coveted  building  did  not  materialize,  even  though  plans  had  been 
drawn,  and  grateful  that  prayers  were  not  answered  in  the  way 
we  expected.     The  Lord  had  larger  things  in  store. 

One  part  Of  the  physical  equipment,  the  smallest,  the  most  fre- 
quently heard,  used  every  day,  indeed,  many  times  a  day,  moving 
professors  and  students  at  will,  yet  seen  by  none,  is  the  bell  in 
the  tower ;  that  historic  bell,  the  first  bell  brought  across  the 
Allegheny  Mountains  for  a  United  Brethren  church,  used  many 
years  on  the  old  church  in  Germantown,  and  secured  by  Dr. 
Landis  for  the  Seminary  about  the  year  1882. 

That  bell!  that  bell  (horribile  dictu),  for  many  years  was  rung 
at  five  o'clock  every  morning  for  students  to  arise,  and  most  of 
them  did  arise  to  begin  their  studies,  and  again  rung  at  nine 
o'clock  at  night  for  students  to  cease  work  and  go  to  bed,  and 
many  obeyed  its  motherly  admonitions. 

For  many  years  printed  rules  were  put  into  the  hands  of  every 
student — printed  on  paper,  not  on  erasable  tablets  of  the  mind,  in- 
dicating what  was  required  in  order  to  get  most  benefit  out  of  his 
stay  in  the  Seminary. 

Sentiment  changed  rapidly  in  churches  fortunate  enough  to  be 
ministered  to  by  men  trained  in  college  and  seminary.  Bishop 
Kephart  used  to  tell  of  lay  delegates  who  came  to  conferences 
and  to  the  appointing  power,  saying,  "Do  not  send  us  a  college 
or  seminary  man ;"  delegates,  who  within  a  very  short  time,  came 
back,  saying,  "Send  us  no  other  than  a  man  trained  for  his  work." 

In  the  Church  there  was  not  a  strong  sentiment  like  in  older 
denominations,  as  Presbyterian,  Congregational,  Lutheran, 
prompting  and  bolstering  this  new  needed  institution,  making  it 
easy  to  get  persons  to  give  liberally.  Then,  too,  not  many  had 
much  to  give,  granting  that  they  had  the  disposition. 

Everything  had  to  be  made  from  the  raw  material — sentiment, 
friends,  money.  Is  it  any  wonder  that  physical  prosperity  came 
slowly  ? 

San  Francisco  Seminary,  Presbyterian,  less  than  a  month 
younger  than  ours,  in  its  first  decade,  received  $100,000  and  ten 

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scholarships,  and  early  in  its  second  decade  a  check  came  for 
$250,000. 

Crozer  Seminary  was  presented  to  the  Baptists  in  1866  fully 
equipped,  having  in  hand  $275,000  in  lands,  buildings,  and  in- 
vested funds,  the  gift  of  one  family. 

Two  years  ago,  when  McCormick  Seminary  celebrated  its 
eightieth  anniversary,  the  fiftieth  of  its  location  in  Chicago, 
and  the  one  hundredth  of  the  birth  of  its  generous  patron,  Cyrus 
McCormick,  it  had  changed  its  location  three  times,  its  name  four 
times,  and  had  an  equipment  of  two  millions  and  more  on  call 
when  needed. 

We  had  no  Montgomerys,  Crozers,  McCormicks  to  give  us  a 
start,  and  almost  no  atmosphere  in  which  to  produce  such  men, 
but  we  are  growing  such  now,  a  few  have  already  ripened,  others 
will  ripen  soon,  so  that  in  the  near  future  and  in  generations  to 
come,  men  and  women  will  pour  their  accumulated  treasures  into 
the  institution  to  the  honor  of  God,  and  to  the  saving  of  men  in 
all  the  world. 

All  honor  to  the  memory  of  John  M.  Bonebrake,  his  noble  wife 
cooperating,  that  man  of  purpose  and  prayer,  of  prayer  and  pur- 
pose, who  by  his  gift  of  $83,000  changed  the  name  of  the  Sem- 
inary, January  20,  1909,  to  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary,  in 
gratitude  that  God  had  led  six  of  his  uncles  of  that  name  into  the 
gospel  ministry.  Others  will  follow  his  example,  naming  needed 
buildings,  professorships,  lectureships,  scholarships.  And  equal 
honor  to  the  larger  number  not  able  to  have  their  names  on  build- 
ings, chairs  or  marble  slabs,  who  out  of  hearts  equally  generous 
and  wills  equally  in  accord  with  God's  will,  have  quietly  given 
through  the  years  and  will  be  giving  through  generations  to  come 
to  the  upbuilding  of  this  school,  and  to  the  honor  of  Him,  whom 
not  having  seen  they  love. 

THE  INTELLECTUAL  LIFE  OF  THE  SEMINARY. 

In  the  founding  of  the  Seminary,  the  Church  was  entering  a 
new  field,  was  taking  its  first  steps  on  a  path  untrodden.  It  had 
no  models,  and  until  May,  1871,  there  was  only  one  man,  Dr. 
Henry  Garst,  who  had  taken  a  full  theological  course.  The  Fac- 
ulty chosen  was  inexperienced  in  framing  courses  and  setting 
standards.  Two  courses  were  mapped  out,  the  Regular,  which 
college  graduates  were  allowed  to  finish  in  two  years,  and  the 
English,  requiring  three  years.  Beginning  with  1886,  for  some 
years  a  preparatory  course  was  offered — Hebrew,  Greek,  Church 
History,  and  Mental  Science.  In  1901,  the  Missionary  Course  was 

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added,  and  in   1907,  the  Deaconess  Course,  each  requiring  two 
years. 

To  the  Regular  Course,  new  features  have  been  added  as  the 
requirements  of  the  times  demanded.  First,  special  Sunday-school 
work,  then  Sociology,  Comparative  Religion,  Missions,  Pedagogy, 
Child  Psychology,  Music,  and  Elocution,  the  last  two  being  re- 
quired the  past  year,  so  that  the  course  is  now  more  complete  than 
ever,  which,  if  well  taken  by  the  student,  will  do  more  to  fit  him 
for  efficiency  as  a  minister  in  the  United  Brethren  Church  than 
the  course  and  instruction  in  any  other  seminary  in  the  land. 

Then,  in  addition  to  the  direct  work  of  training  students  in 
the  class  room,  which,  by  reason  of  the  small  Faculty,  required  of 
each  member  double  work  for  the  first  twenty-five  years,  the 
Seminary,  through  its  Faculty,  has  been  an  intellectual  force  for 
the  uplift  of  the  denomination,  in  books  published,  in  tracts, 
papers,  treatises  on  educational  and  theological  subjects,  many  of 
which  have  had  wide  circulation. 

Moreover,  the  Seminary  has  been  a  force  in  promoting  closer 
study  of  books  suggested,  and  by  helping  to  turn  the  old  methods 
of  holding  institutes  into  inspiring  Bible  conferences,  and  by 
teaching  in  them. 

At  one  time  the  Seminary  offered  correspondence  courses  for 
those  not  able  to  get  to  the  institution,  and  yet  were  ambitions  to 
make  preparation  for  more  efficient  service. 

Furthermore,  in  response  to  an  expressed  wish,  and  in  harmony 
with  the  action  of  the  General  Conference,  the  Seminary  proposed 
a  three  years'  "post-graduate  theological  course,"  naming  books 
and  prices,  for  those  who  had  had  school  training,  and  the  "Itin- 
erants' Course,"  for  those  who  had  not  had  the  advantages  of  the 
schools,  in  the  hope  of  stimulating  more  ministers  to  persistent, 
systematic,  close  study  of  subjects  related  to  their  work.  The 
Faculty  also  prepared  lists  of  questions  for  the  examination  of 
licentiates  in  all  the  conferences. 

These  are  some  of  the  ways  in  which  the  Seminary  has  been  an 
intellectual  asset  to  the  Church,  working  quietly,  yet  yielding  a 
valuable  income,  enriching  lives  in  many  ways  and  places  by  en- 
larging the  efficiency  of  ministers  and  members.  It  has  put  its 
helpful  touch  upon  many  a  person  who  has  never  been  in  Day- 
ton and  never  will  be. 

"  Like  some  tall  palm  the  noiseless  fabric  sprang." 
"  But  life  did  never  to  one  man  allow 

Time  to  discover  worlds  and  conquer,  too." 

Others  in  the  future  will  build  better  than  we  have  done  in  the 
pioneer  period  of  the  past. 

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Again,  the  Seminary's  contribution  to  the  intellectual  energy 
of  the  Church  has  taken  concrete  form  in  its  graduates,  holding 
responsible  positions,  key  men,  as  the  Senior  Bishop,  G.  M.  Math- 
ews, the  Publishing  Agent,  W.  R.  Funk,  the  Secretary  of  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions,  S.  S.  Hough,  its  own  five  graduates  in  its 
teaching  force;  in  its  efficient  General  Manager;  three  college 
professors,  four  editors  of  the  literature  of  the  denomination, 
three  secretaries  of  branches  of  service,  two  evangelists,  eleven 
presiding  elders,  twenty-two  missionaries  beyond  the  seas,  and 
its  hundreds  of  efficient  pastors  all  contributing  moral,  intellectual, 
and  spiritual  force  in  and  from  as  many  different  centers. 

The  impact  of  these  intellectual  forces  on  the  Church !  Who  will 
measure  it  for  us  ?  What  progress  has  the  denomination  made  in 
this  city  since  the  Seminary  came  ?  Three  churches  then  and  one 
mission.  Now  fourteen  churches  and  three  missions,  every  one 
helped  by  students  of  the  Seminary.  What  adjustments  of  de- 
nominations to  one  another,  and  to  the  open  doors  of  the  world 
since  1871,  until  now  we  see  a  nation,  as  China,  born  in  a  day. 

Who  will  dare  predict  the  changes  in  the  near  and  remote 
future — changes  even  greater  than  in  the  past?  Yet  in  all  these 
changes  the  Seminary  will  have  its  part,  will  be  a  contributing 
agency,  through  its  graduates  increasing  in  number,  quality,  and 
efficiency.  "Then  shall  thy  light  rise  in  darkness,  and  thine  ob- 
scurity be  as  the  noonday;  and  the  Lord  shall  guide  thee  con- 
tinually, and  satisfy  thy  soul  in  dry  places,  and  make  strong  thy 
bones ;  and  thou  shalt  be  like  a  watered  garden  and  like  a  spring 
of  water  whose  waters  fail  not.  And  they  that  shall  be  of  thee 
shall  build  the  old  waste  places ;  thou  shalt  raise  up  the  founda- 
tions of  many  generations ;  and  thou  shalt  be  called  The  repairer 
of  the  breach,  The  restorer  of  paths  to  dwell  in." 

So  that  our  fathers  builded  better  than  they  knew.  All  hail  to 
them  this  hour.  Do  they  look  down  over  the  battlements  and  re- 
joice in  the  work  being  done  which  they  helped  to  start  so  well? 

THE  SPIRITUAL  LIFE  OF  THE  SEMINARY. 

/.     In  its  doctrinal  standards. 

Its  teaching  has  always  been  loyal  to  God  as  Father,  to  Jesus 
Christ  as  Savior  of  all  men,  by  his  spotless  life  and  his  atoning 
death,  to  the  Holy  Spirit  as  abiding,  teaching,  witnessing,  con- 
vincing of  sin,  righteousness,  and  judgment,  and  guiding  into  all 
the  truth. 

It  has  been  true  to  all  the  fundamental  doctrines  growing  out  of 
belief  in  the  Holy  Trinity,  as  sin,  depravity,  regeneration,  sancti- 
on 


fication,  the  future  bliss  of  the  righteousness,  and  the  doom  of 
the  unrepentant  wicked. 

On  the  commission  appointed  by  the  General  Conference,  1885, 
to  restate  the  creed  the  Seminary  had  one  member  who  wrote  the 
articles  on  Regeneration  and  Sanctification. 

There  has  always  been  fidelity  to  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of 
God,  the  all-sufficient  rule  of  faith  and  practice.  That  "God  is 
the  starting  point,  his  word  is  preeminent,"  as  stated  by  Dr.  Davis 
in  the  opening  address  forty-one  years  ago,  has  been  held  and  em- 
phasized ever  since,  and  never  more  so  than  now ;  for  out  of 
him  as  the  source,  through  him  as  the  agent,  and  unto  him  as  the 
end  are  all  things,  to  whom  be  the  glory  unto  the  ages  of  ages. 

77.     The  Seminary  in  its  prayer  life. 

Beginning  as  we  did,  it  was  recognized,  "Except  the  Lord 
build  the  house  they  labor  in  vain  that  build  it."  That  Paul 
planted,  Apollos  watered,  but  God  gave  the  increase.  So  then 
neither  is  he  that  planteth  anything,  neither  he  that  watereth,  but 
God  that  giveth  the  increase",  that  "of  God  we  are  the  fellow- 
workers,  of  God  we  were  the  field,  of  God  we  were  the  building." 
God  being  recognized  as  first  in  all  things,  prayer  was  early  em- 
phasized in  the  lives  of  teachers,  students,  committees,  chapel  ex- 
ercises, and  special  meetings.  Quite  early,  too,  requests  for 
prayer  began  to  come  from  pastors  in  the  field.  Then,  as  gradu- 
ates went  forth,  they  in  turn  kept  sending  back  requests  for 
prayer,  which  served  to  keep  those  inside  in  close  sympathy  with 
those  on  the  outside.  Soon  persons  not  so  directly  related,  mis- 
sionaries, secretaries,  organizations  interdenominational  and  en- 
terprises in  remote  regions  sent,  and  are  still  sending,  to  ask  the 
Seminary  to  pray,  and  often  have  the  next  mails  brought  thrilling 
reports  of  the  gracious  manifestations  of  the  Spirit  of  God  to  in- 
dividuals, churches,  and  communities.  It  may  be  gratefully 
acknowledged  to  the  praise  of  his  name,  that  through  this  agency 
God  has  turned  currents  of  power  on  lives  at  home  and  abroad, 
and  that  it  is  the  desire  and  effort  to  increase  this  dynamic  power 
as  the  years  go  by. 

The  fear  often  expressed  in  earlier  years  that  men  might  "lose 
their  religion  by  attending  the  Seminary,"  "backslide,"  "grow 
cold,"  has  long  been  dispelled,  and  the  Seminary  has  been  and  is 
the  best  place  on  earth  in  which  to  acquire  a  strong,  consecrated 
personality  by  three  years  of  close  contact  with  the  truth,  and 
through  the  truth,  intimate  fellowship  with  the  God  of  truth. 

III.  Another  way  in  which  God  has  owned  the  spiritual 
agency  of  the  Seminary  is  through  its  eight  Bible  conferences, 
which  were  great  in  the  numbers  attending,  in    the    instruction 

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given,  in  spiritual  uplift,  great  in  the  inspiration  carried  away, 
beneficial  in  the  closer  acquaintance  of  alumni  who  had  never 
seen  each  other,  in  the  fellowship  of  ministers  and  laity,  great  in 
their  influence  on  city  and  surrounding  territory,  great  in  results 
to  the  Church  through  addresses  reported  and  published. 

The  first  was  in  1899,  under  Dr.  Chapman,  the  next,  1900,  under 
Dr.  Carson,  the  third,  1901,  under  the  Bishops,  the  fourth,  fifth, 
and  sixth  under  G.  Campbell  Morgan,  in  the  Third  Street  Luth- 
eran Church,  at  that  time  the  largest  auditorium  in  the  city,  which 
was  quickly  filled  by  several  thousand  persons,  crowding,  jam- 
ming, literally  climbing  over  one  another,  leaving  hundreds  out- 
side to  go  slowly  away  disappointed.  The  next,  1905,  under  F. 
B.  Meyer,  the  best  known  spiritual  power  in  England ;  the  next, 
1906,  under  J.  Campbell  White,  which  many  thought  the  best 
of  all  for  definite  instruction  and  results. 

In  some  of  these  conferences,  ministers  of  all  denominations 
from  Ohio  and  adjoining  States  to  the  number  of  more  than  400, 
gathered  to  share  in  the  study  of  the  Word  with  a  view  to  the 
deepening  of  the  spiritual  life,  as  stated  in  the  circulars  sent  out 
announcing  the  first  conference. 

The  city,  the  Seminary,  the  denomination,  were  brought  under 
the  spell  of  these  great  devotional  gatherings,  much  like  the  Pass- 
over Feast,  held  also  in  the  spring  of  the  year,  a  new  conserva- 
tion, the  waiving  of  the  first  sheaf,  a  pledge  of  the  greater  har- 
vest to  be.  Students  compared  the  benefits  derived  to  a  year's 
study  in  the  Seminary.  Individual  citizens  stopped  on  the  streets 
to  thank  the  Seminary  for  bringing  such  men  and  such  benefits 
within  their  reach  ;  pastors  were  revived  and  currents  of  religious 
awakening  were  started.     See  Seminary  Bulletin  of  July,  1906. 

But  I  should  not  be  fair  did  I  not  say  that  the  wives  of  the  pro- 
fessors, from  the  first,  have  done  well  their  part  in  making  the 
Seminary  what  it  is,  by  opening  their  homes,  and  hearts  as  well, 
day  and  night,  to  the  incoming  students,  giving  warm  welcome, 
cheering  the  homesick  by  motherly  solicitude  and  motherly  del- 
icacies when  too  ill  to  leave  their  rooms ;  by  afternoon  receptions 
for  the  wives  of  the  students,  often  burdened  with  inconveniences 
unknown  to  them  before,  in  order  that  their  husbands  might  pre- 
pare for  larger  usefulness.  Then,  after  graduation,  professors' 
wives  have  put  up  appetizing  lunches  for  the  journey  back  home 
after  an  absence  of  three  years,  for  some  to  cross  the  continent 
west,  and  for  others  to  New  York  with  their  faces  toward  the 
foreign  field. 

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IV.     The  Seminary  as  a  missionary  center. 

The  early  graduates  went  as  pioneers  to  open  new  fields  in  the 
homeland.  When  in  1886  the  Student  Volunteer  Movement  for 
Foreign  Missions  was  organized,  it  found  responses  among  our 
students,  and  almost  ever  since  a  Volunteer  Band  has  existed,  by 
which,  with  frequent  emphasis  by  each  teacher,  a  good  missionary 
spirit  has  been  maintained,  and  is  on  the  increase.  Two  of  the 
professors  have  daughters  in  the  foreign  field. 

More  and  more  returned  missionaries  (four  this  year)  are 
spending  their  furloughs  in  taking  studies  in  the  Seminary.  They 
give  much  while  they  get  much.  By  their  presence  and  purposeful 
living,  they  help  to  keep  the  heart  of  the  Seminary  near  to  the 
heart  of  the  greatest  missionary,  Jesus  Christ,  and  confront  each 
student  with  the  question,  "How  can  I  make  my  short  span  of 
life  tell  most  for  Jesus  Christ?"  Of  the  present  class,  one-third 
will  serve  abroad,  and  one-third  in  missions  at  home. 

Two  of  the  alumni,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  L.  A.  McGrew,  class  of  1890, 
wear  the  martyr's  crown  received  while  serving  in  Africa,  May, 
1898. 

In  conclusion,  from  this  hasty  review  did  the  Church  do 
well  to  open  the  Seminary  more  than  forty  years  ago?  Has  it 
done  well  to  have  only  one  Seminary,  thereby  unifying  the  Church 
in  its  doctrinal  standards,  in  its  method  of  administration,  in  pro- 
moting fellowship,  in  practical  cooperation  for  definite  ends  till 
we  all  come  unto  the  unity  of  the  faith? 

Will  it  do  well  for  the  next  forty-one  years  to  have  only  one 
Seminary,  concentrating  all  its  energies,  financial,  intellectual, 
spiritual,  toward  making  this  one  center  strong,  a  mighty  fortress 
out  of  which  shall  go  soldiers,  brave,  heroic,  equipped  to  help  take 
the  world  for  our  glorious  Lord  and  to  crown  him  King  and 
Lord  of  all  ? 

Is  not  one  Seminary  the  next  forty-one  years  the  dictate  of 
wisdom  even  if  this  Church  must  pay  part  of  the  expense  of 
students,  coming  from  the  coast,  which,  in  all  fairness,  it  ought 
to  be  doing  now,  for  of  all  the  students,  those  from  the  coast  are 
examples  of  extraordinary  church  loyalty,  shown  by  their  coming 
so  far  at  such  expense  and  inconvenience— men  of  talent,  devo- 
tion, sacrifice,  which  spell  success  for  the  cause  of  Christ  in  that 
rapidly  growing  coast  empire.  Somehow  their  burden  ought  to 
be  made  lighter  now,  because  of  what  they  are  and  because  of 
what  they  will  be  and  what  they  will  do. 

And,  finally,  what?  If  in  forty-one  years  this  Seminary  has 
come  from  nothing  to  what  it  is,  from  two  professors  to  seven, 
from  11  students  to  70,  the  largest  attendance  in  its  history,  from 

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not  one  book  to  a  library  of  3,700,  from  not  one  dollar  to  net 
assets  amounting  to  $381,600,  an  increase  of  $200,000  in  three 
years  under  the  optimistic,  energetic  manager,  Dr.  J.  E.  Fout,  from 
not  a  spoonful  of  ground  for  a  home  to  274  acres  for  a  location 
which  leaves  nothing  to  be  desired,  but  which  will  furnish  accom- 
modations for  the  next  four  or  five  hundred  years.  What, 
brethren,  shall  we  say  to  these  things  ?  If  God  be  for  us,  who  can 
be  against  us? 

Does  history  tell  us  that  the  leaders  in  religious  thought  for 
hundreds  of  years,  as  Luther  and  Melanchthon,  Bucer  and  Calvin. 
Tyndale  and  Bilney,  Latimer  and  Knox,  Wesley  and  Otterbein, 
and  others,  were  men  trained  in  the  schools  ?  Then  does  history 
also  tell  us  that  the  future  leaders  must  be  trained  in  the  univer- 
sities and  seminaries  for  the  work  God  has  yet  to  do. 

Shall  we  rise  and  build  for  God  and  for  generations  and  ages 
coming?  Shall  we  pray  as  Jesus  did,  not  alone  for  these  present 
to-day,  but  also  for  those  in  all  time  who  shall  believe  on  him 
through  the  agency  of  this  Seminary,  that  they  may  all  be  one 
with  him,  just  as  he  was  one  with  the  Father,  until  they  are  per- 
fected into  one  with  him,  to  the  end  that  by  this  perfect  oneness 
in  spirit,  in  love,  in  service,  the  world,  the  whole  world,  the  un- 
evangelized  in  all  places  and  ages,  may  know,  may  certainly  know, 
experimentally  know,  that  the  Father  sent  his  Son  to  save,  and 
that  he  loves  every  creature  just  as  he  loved  his  Son  who  never 
sinned  ? 

Why,  I  ask,  why  should  not  our  praying  be  more  like  our  Lord's 
in  the  extent  of  time  covered  by  his  prayers ;  our  prayers  reaching 
down  through  coming  generations  of  students,  teachers,  managers, 
patrons  of  this  school  ?  Why  not  our  praying  more  like  his  pray- 
ing for  spiritual  attainments  such  as  would  compel  the  world 
to  know? 

Why,  I  ask,  shall  we  not  by  work  and  by  prayer,  by  unceasing 
prayer  and  unceasing  work,  make  this  Seminary  a  city  set  on  a 
hill  that  cannot  be  hid,  a  fountain,  deep  and  wide  and  strong  on 
a  high  hill,  flowing  down  into  the  desert  making  it  to  bud  and 
blossom  as  the  rose  ?  Why  not  make  this  Seminary  a  great  tree, 
whose  fruit  shall  shake  like  Lebanon,  and  whose  every  leaf  shall 
be  for  the  healing  of  the  nations ;  yea,  make  it  a  sun  in  the  un- 
clouded sky,  a  brightly  shining  sun,  whose  life-giving  rays  shall 
fall  on  every  life,  giving  it  the  beauty  of  holiness,  to  the  great  end 
that  nozv  unto  the  principalities  and  powers  in  the  heavenlies  may 
be  made  known  by  the  church  the  manifold,  many-sided  wisdom  of 
God,  all  looking  toward  and  hastening  that  glorious  consummation 
when  the  four  living  creatures,  which  are  before  the  throne,  shall 

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be  heard  saying,  and  the  four  and  twenty  elders,  which  are  before 
the  throne,  shall  be  heard  saying,  and  the  many  angels  round 
about  the  throne  and  the  number  of  them  is  ten  thousand  times 
ten  thousand,  and  thousands  of  thousands  shall  be  heard  saying, 
and  every  created  thing  which  is  in  heaven,  and  on  the  earth, 
and  under  the  earth,  and  on  the  sea,  and  all  things  that  are  in 
them  shall  be  heard  saying,  "Unto  Him  that  sitteth  on  the  throne, 
and  unto  the  Lamb  be  the  Blessing  and  the  Honor,  and  the 
Glory,  and  the  Dominion,  forever  and  forever  and  forever." 


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Bishop  George  M.  Mathews,  D.D. 


Relation  of  the  Seminary  to  the  Church 

History  has  its  place  and  value.  It  is  both  a  revelation  and  an 
inspiration.  It  has  its  philosophy  and  its  lessons.  It  sets  forth 
the  achievements  of  the  past  and  the  forces  that  led  to  them.  It 
recounts  the  struggles  and  experiences  of  pioneer  life,  whether  of 
an  individual,  institution,  or  nation,  and  this  revelation  of  the 
past  serves  as  an  inspiration  for  the  future.  High  statesmanship 
halts  to  glance  over  the  yesterday,  so  that  it  may  have  a  better 
vision  for  the  to-morrow.  Only  in  this  way  do  anniversaries 
reach  their  highest  service. 

This  fortieth  anniversary  will  prove  helpful  to  the  Seminary 
and  the  Church,  if  we  discover  that  this  institution  has  reached 
a  period  in  its  history  and  in  the  thought  of  the  denomination, 
when 


CERTAIN  THINGS  ARE  TO  BE  TAKEN   FOR  GRANTED. 

1.     The  purpose  and  mission  of  the  Seminary. 

Primarily,  the  Seminary  was  not  founded  to  make  profound 
scholars,  linguistic  experts,  and  masters  in  theology.  We  have 
great  scholars  and  intellectual  masters,  of  whom  we  are  proud  as 
a  denomination.  We  appreciate  these  giants.  But  this  is  not  the 
main  purpose  of  the  Seminary.  It  stands  for  such  ministerial 
education  and  training  as  shall  make  efficient  preachers  and  pas- 
tors. Its  supreme  mission  is  to  advance  the  kingdom  of  God,  by 
making  mighty  expounders  of  the  Word,  and  leaders  capable  of 
meeting  the  intellectual  and  spiritual  needs  of  the  people  to  whom 
thev  minister.  In  a  word,  the  mission  of  the  Seminary  is  to  give 
vision,  enrichment,  strength,  and  prestige  to  our  denomination  by 
training  its  ministry  into  religious  leadership  that  shall  give 
sane,  intelligent  direction  to  our  denominational  thought  and 
activities. 

May  I  emphasize  that  ministerial  education  in  this  institution 
stands  for  the  training  of  men  for  spiritual  work  by  processes 
that  shall  increase  their  efficiency  and  power. 

Furthermore,  I  feel  sure  that  the  high  claim  of  this  school  for 
existence  and  generous  support,  at  this  crucial  time,  rests  solely 

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upon   the    faithful    and    courageous   execution     of     this     worthy 
purpose. 

2.  The  divine  call  to  the  ministry. 

Another  thing  to  be  taken  for  granted  is  the  scripture  doctrine 
and  experience  of  a  divine  call  to  the  ministry.  This  is  the  dom- 
inant sentiment  of  our  Church  to-day.  Our  Church  has  ever 
held  to  this  fundamental  truth,  that  God,  in  his  eternal  purpose 
and  plan  of  redemption,  has  included  his  gracious  choice  of  human 
personality  to  cooperate  with  him  in  the  salvation  of  the  world. 
"Ye  have  not  chosen  me,  but  I  have  chosen  you,"  said  Jesus  to 
his  disciples.  We  believe  that  God  himself  puts  men  into  the 
ministry  and  gives  them  the  consciousness  of  his  endorsement, 
according  to  their  individual  aptitude  and  temperaments. 

We  dare  not  recede  from  this  fundamental  fact  of  the  divine 
call  to  the  ministry.  Nor  do  we  stop  with  the  fact  of  this  call. 
We  are  coming  to  see  more  clearly  that  this  call  includes  an 
obligation  to  strive  for  the  best  possible  educational  equipment 
in  this  high  vocation. 

3.  A  good  foundation  for  preaching  possibility. 

Another  demand  of  the  Seminary  to  be  taken  for  granted,  and 
about  which  there  should  be  no  question,  especially  at  this  period 
of  our  Church's  life  and  testing,  is  that  matriculation  in  the  in- 
stitution should  be  granted  only  to  those  who  have  the  native  gift 
of  expression  and  fair  ability  to  teach  divine  truth.  Have  we 
not  reached  the  period  when  our  ministerial  needs  demand  that 
no  person  shall  be  admitted  into,  or  be  permitted  to  remain  in 
this  school  of  the  prophets  who  does  not  possess  fair  preaching 
possibilities  and  elements  that  can  be  trained  into  commanding 
leadership? 

It  is  admitted  that  the  apostolic  college  was  composed  of  men 
who  possessed  different  capabilities  and  characteristics.  Our 
Lord  evidently  understood  this  diversity  in  his  selection  of  the 
twelve.  Each  apostle  differed  from  the  other  in  his  gifts.  Each 
also  possessed  the  gift  best  for  his  own  work.  But  in  no  case  did 
Jesus  choose  men  without  rich  mental  soil,  and  talents  capable  of 
being  developed  into  spiritual  gianthood  and  intellectual  leader- 
ship. Schools  are  to  make  giants ;  and  we  need  them  these  days. 
But  the  school  cannot  develop  a  giant  from  a  dwarf,  and  may  I 
say  that  the  church  that  encourages  those  to  enter  this  sacred 
calling  who  are  devoid  of  such  capabilities  and  possibilities  to 
which  I  have  alluded,  and,  moreover,  authorizes  its  theological 
school  to  issue  a  diploma  certifying  to  what  its  possessor  is  ex- 
pected to  possess,  but  does  not  always  possess,  deserves  the  public 

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censure  with  which  it  is  sure  to  be  rewarded.  Why  should  we 
disappoint  the  rightful  expectations  of  the  people  who  are  always 
the  final  judges  of  the  output  of  our  schools? 

THE    SUPREME    QUESTION. 

With  the  above-named  things  taken  for  granted,  I  pass  to  the 
consideration  of  the  supreme  question  before  our  denomination 
at  this  time ;  namely,  the  kind  of  ministerial  equipment  suited 
to  meet  the  demand  of  the  times  and  the  needs  of  our  Church. 
The  fact  is  patent  to  all,  that  the  vast  changes  in  modern  life 
during  the  last  half  century  have  greatly  affected  the  ministry  as 
well  as  the  other  two  honored  professions  of  medicine  and  law. 
So  great  has  been  the  advance  in  all  the  departments  of  the 
modern  world  in  technical  knowledge,  in  the  science  of  govern- 
ment, and  the  philosophy  of  religion,  that  all  professions  are 
under  the  scrutiny  and  demand  for  higher  ideals,  wider  scope  of 
equipment,  and  increased  efficiency.  This  is  not  only  true  in  re- 
gard to  law  and  medicine,  but  it  is  conspicuously  true  with  ref- 
erence to  the  Christian  ministry. 

The  public  expects  the  finished  product  of  the  theological 
school  to  be  far  above  what  it  was  a  half  century  ago.  In  view 
of  present  day  intelligence  and  advancement,  it  has  a  right  to 
make  such  demand  upon  those  who  present  themselves  as  spirit- 
ual teachers  and  leaders.  Commandership  is  more  than  ever  ex- 
pected of  the  minister  who  presides  over  a  city  or  country  parish, 
be  it  large  or  small. 

Should  not  this  fortieth  anniversary  mark  a  distinct  advance  in 
our  denomination  for  a  higher  educational  ideal  of  the  ministry? 
Have  we  not  reached  a  period  in  the  history  of  our  Church 
when  such  an  educational  ideal  should  be  maintained  in  order  to 
the  larger  life  and  influence  of  our  denomination  ?  Have  we  not 
come  to  the  time  when  both  a  college  and  seminary  education  is 
indispensable?  Not,  mark  you,  a  collegiate  education  without  a 
theological  training;  not  a  seminary  equipment  without  a  college 
preparation ;  but  both  together  as  essential  to  enable  the  preacher 
to  do  his  best  work  and  reach  the  highest  degree  of  success. 

OTHER  ELEMENTS  NOT  TO  BE  IGNORED. 

Do  not  misunderstand  me  in  this  emphasis  of  an  advanced 
educational  ideal  for  the  present  ministry. 

I  do  not  depreciate  other  necessary  qualifications  for  an  efficient 
ministry.  I  simply  give  special  emphasis  to  this  educational  phase 
of  a  complete  ministerial  furnishing. 

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Surely  one  of  the  greatest  needs  of  Christendom  is  a  spiritual 
ministry.  Evidently  the  entire  Church  needs  spiritual  fertilization, 
not  excepting  the  preachers.  A  careful  study  of  our  denomina- 
tional situation  reveals  this  need.  It  is  clear  to  see  that  the 
deepening  and  quickening  of  the  spiritual  life  of  the  ministry, 
together  with  the  consecration  of  all  their  powers  and  talents  to 
the  one  work  of  preaching  salvation,  is  absolutely  essential  in  these 
days  of  ministerial  sidetracking. 

I  would  not  depreciate,  nay,  I  would  exalt,  the  value  of  a 
strong  faith  in  God,  a  rich  inner  life  in  Christ,  and  the  divine  flame 
of  love  that  burns,  constrains,  and  impels  to  service  and  sacrifice. 
The  dynamic  power  of  this  Christ  life  in  the  preacher  is  an  im- 
perative need. 

But  my  plea  is  not  for  the  minimum,  but  the  maximum  qualifi- 
cation of  the  preacher,  including  all  sides  of  his  equipment.  Not 
less  piety,  but  more  knowledge ;  not  less  spirituality,  but  more  in- 
tellectual force.  These  things  united  will  enable  the  preacher  to 
present  Christ  and  his  truth  with  impressive,  persuasive  power. 
Dr.  Francis  W.  Bakeman,  in  insisting  that  the  ideal  of  seminary 
life  should  be  homiletic,  puts  it  as  follows : 

"Must  the  preacher  not  know  Greek  and  have  a  working  knowl- 
edge of  Hebrew  ?  Surely,  but  only  that  he  may  be  a  better,  more 
accurate,  and  resourceful  preacher.  Must  he  not  understand 
systematic  theology?  Unquestionably,  but  only  that  his  preach- 
ing may  be  more  truthful  and  weighty.  Ought  he  not  be  versed 
in  Church  history  and  archeology?  Certainly,  but  only  in  order 
that  he  may  preach  more  impressively  and  convincingly."  Then 
he  adds :  "The  supreme  work,  the  dominant  aim  of  a  theological 
seminary  should  be  to  make  preachers  and  pastors  of  the  highest 
possible  kind  out  of  the  material  given.  .  .  .  The  highest  am- 
bition of  any  school  of  sacred  learning  should  be  to  produce  well 
equipped  and  effective  ministers,  who  can  win  the  favor  of  the 
hearers  of  the  average  congregation." 

WHY    SUCH    EDUCATIONAL    IDEAL    FOR   OUR    CHURCH? 

1.     The  superlative  dignity  of  the  Christian  ministry  requires  it. 

It  is  the  high  calling  of  God,  the  most  exalted  and  sacred 
vocation  in  the  universe.  It  is  a  higher  position  than  that  of  any 
ruler  that  ever  sat  upon  an  earthly  throne.  The  preacher  is  the 
representative  of  the  court  of  heaven.  He  is  in  partnership  with 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  for  the  redemption  of  a  lost  world.  He  is 
charged  with  the  greatest  message  that  was  ever  committed  to 

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men.  His  ambassadorial  character  lifts  him  to  the  highest  plane 
of  relationship  and  service. 

This  ineffable  dignity  carries  with  it  an  obligation  to  discharge 
his  duties  efficiently  as  the  representative  of  the  most  high  God 
in  the  affairs  of  his  kingdom.  His  qualifications  should  therefore 
be  worthy  of  the  greatness  of  the  Person  he  represents,  and 
commensurate  with  the  conspicuous  position  he  occupies. 

The  minister  has  also  a  high  function  as  the  prophet  of  God. 
He  must  interpret  the  thoughts  of  God  in  their  widest  possible 
scope,  and  in  their  manifold  relations.  He  should  understand  the 
deep  mysteries  of  God.  He  must  communicate  revealed  truth 
to  men  in  terms  and  phraseology  that  will  best  impress,  instruct, 
and  inspire.  To  do  this  he  must  have  a  commanding  knowledge 
of  the  Bible,  and  be  familiar  with  it  in  the  tongues  in  which  it  was 
originally  written.  He  must  know  the  Bible  exegetically  and 
thoroughly,  so  as  to  have  a  system  of  truth,  and  that  at  first  hand, 
so  that  when  he  speaks  it  is  with  the  authority  and  freshness  of 
originality.  Otherwise  he  will  suffer  the  weakness  of  superficial- 
ity and  uncertainty.  He  should  be  such  a  critical  student  of  the 
Word  of  God  as  to  become  a  master  of  Biblical  knowledge.  He 
must  know  well  what  he  professes  to  know,  in  order  to  give  tone 
to  the  sentiments  and  convictions  of  his  people.  Nothing  short 
of  this  high  conception  of  preparation  will  drive  him  to  hard 
study  and  accurate  thinking  as  a  prophet  of  God. 

2.     The  greatness  of  the  message. 

The  preacher's  message  is  the  Word  of  God,  the  revelation  of 
his  thoughts  and  purpose  to  men.  It  contains  great  fundamental, 
pivotal,  eternal  truths,  which  underlie  all  progress,  reform,  and 
civilization.  Its  literature,  its  poetry,  its  democracy,  its  moral 
and  spiritual  worth  are  its  glory.  Says  Dr.  Stalker :  "The  Word 
of  God  is  the  thought  of  God.  It  is  more  ancient  than  the  stars, 
and  lies  more  deeply  imbedded  in  the  constitution  of  things  than 
the  roots  of  the  mountain.  God's  Word  is  before  all  things." 
The  minister  is  bound  to  deliver  this  message  of  redeeming  love 
in  such  a  way  that  neither  its  truth  nor  its  glory  will  suffer  in 
his  hands.  He  is,  therefore,  responsible  for  the  mastery  of  the 
glorious  message  which  it  is  his  privilege  to  communicate. 

Then,  there  are  two  fields  of  conflict  with  the  Bible  and  its 
message.  The  one  relates  to  its  authority,  and  the  other  relates 
to  its  meaning.  The  preacher  must  be  able  to  defend  successfully 
its  authority  and  make  clear  its  meaning.  This  requires  accurate 
knowledge  and  careful  thinking  and  training. 

The  gospel  has  not  always  had  a  fair  chance  in  the  hands  of 
men.    Piety  and  consecration  are  all  important  qualifications ;  but 

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these  will  not  make  up  for  inadequate  preparation  and  illiteracy. 
The  Word  of  God  is  a  sharp  two-edged  weapon,  and  the  hands 
that  wield  it  should  be  skilled  and  trained. 

Surely  the  ineffable  greatness  and  glory  of  the  message  which 
men  are  charged  to  deliver  demand  the  specialization  of  the 
schools. 

3.  The  influence  of  preaching  upon  the  age. 

This  gospel  which  Christ  has  committed  to  his  representatives 
has  universal  adaptation.  It  is  suited  to  all  peoples,  ages,  and 
conditions.  It  has  vital  relation  to  all  the  institutions  and  agencies 
that  build  up  a  strong  civilization.  It  is  the  power  of  God  unto 
the  salvation  of  every  individual  and  nation  that  accepts  Jesus 
Christ.  Hence,  wherever  it  is  ably  and  faithfully  proclaimed,  the 
gospel  exerts  a  powerful  influence  upon  that  age. 

The  conversion  of  the  Roman  world  was  chiefly  due  to  the 
preaching  of  the  gospel.  While  the  general  disuse  of  preaching 
in  the  apostolic  times  led  to  formality  and  corruption.  It  is  well 
known  by  every  student  of  church  history  that  those  who  went 
forth  as  ambassadors  of  Christ,  proclaiming  with  intelligence 
and  ability  the  great  doctrines  of  the  Word  of  God,  made  deep 
impressions  upon  their  age. 

Those  preachers  who  were  the  great  expositors  of  the  Bible, 
who  presented  its  truths  with  thorough  exegetical  knowledge,  and 
held  them  with  the  power  of  intellectual  and  spiritual  grip,  made 
their  pulpit  a  throne,  from  which  proceeded  a  strange  influence 
which  awakened  the  moral  sense  of  men  and  made  them  mighty 
factors  for  morality,  righteousness,  and  good  government.  There 
never  was  a  greater  demand  and  opportunity  than  now  for  the 
Christian  pulpit  to  exert  a  powerful  influence  in  determining  what 
shall  be  the  prevailing  characteristics  of  our  present  civilization 
in  respect  to  moral  ideals,  national  honor,  and  religious  conduct. 
It  is  interesting  to  study  the  great  reformers  and  spiritual  build- 
ers of  Christian  history.  Who  were  they?  Such  educated, 
mighty  preachers  of  the  Word  as  Luther,  Knox,  Whitefield, 
Wesley,  Otterbein,  Finney,  Chalmers,  Beecher,  Spurgeon,  and 
others.  They  were  able  custodians  and  expounders  of  revealed 
truth  and  leaders  of  the  religious  thought  of  their  age. 

4.  Adequate  leadership. 

This  leads  me  to  speak  of  the  present  demand  for  an  adequate 
leadership.  Never  in  the  history  of  our  Church  and  the  world  has 
there  been  such  need  of  sane,  intelligent,  vigorous  leadership  as 
to-day. 

The  call  is  for  educated,  trained  men  and  women  who  know 
more  than  others,  who  have  moral  leadership,  who  champion  great 

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world  enterprises  and  guide  the  forward  movements  of  the  king- 
dom in  channels  of  power  and  blessing.  The  call  is  for  men  of 
thoroughness,  breadth,  culture,  and  training,  who  fall  neither  into 
despair  nor  fanaticism. 

These  are  the  men  who  may  lay  claim  to  moral  leadership  in 
giving  wise  direction  and  tone  to  denominational  thought  and 
activity.  Dr.  Herschel  Johnson  has  well  said  that  "thoroughness 
makes  a  man  stand  before  kings." 

It  is  significant  that  the  religious  leaders  of  to-day  are  looking 
to  consecrated  graduates  of  our  colleges  and  seminaries  who  are 
specially  trained  to  be  key  men  in  both  the  home  and  foreign 
field.  No  other  class  of  men  and  women  can  measure  up  to  the 
demands  of  the  hour  and  conduct  an  administration  of  command- 
ing influence  and  prestige,  whether  in  home  or  foreign  missions. 

Dr.  G.  A.  Gordon  declares  that  it  was  the  leadership  of  Paul 
and  John  that  held  the  religion  of  Jesus  to  its  proper  place  and 
channel  in  the  early  century.  "They  changed  the  character  of 
the  Christian  centuries." 

Luther  and  Calvin  and  Zwingli  and  Knox  so  guided  the  Ref- 
ormation that  it  bore  the  very  best  fruits.  The  lesson  of  all 
church  history  reveals  the  importance  of  adequate  leadership. 
The  prophet  of  God  as  a  leader  and  teacher  must  get  this  power 
through  the  touch  and  training  of  the  schools. 

Dr.  Faunce,  in  speaking  of  the  demand  for  ethical  leadership 
upon  the  part  of  the  preacher,  says :  "He  is  to  interpret  the  Gal- 
ilean teaching  in  terms  of  present  life.  He  is  to  explain  what  in 
the  gospel  narrative  is  transient  custom,  and  what  is  external  law. 
He  is  to  point  out  impartially  and  fearlessly  the  ethical  dangers 
which  inhere  in  all  groupings  of  labor  or  capital,  and  in  all  new 
movements,  social  or  civic,  fraternal  or  religious.  He  is  to  make 
all  men  see  that  the  kingdom  he  represents  is  no  insubstantial 
pageant,  but  the  deepest,  divinest  of  realities,  and  that  every  man 
in  the  community  may  find  in  the  service  of  that  kingdom  a  task 
big  enough  and  arduous  enough  to  employ  forever  his  highest 
powers.  .  .  A  man  with  this  conception  of  his  calling  can 
never  become  a  mere  functionary  of  ecclesiastical  routine.  He  is 
prophet  of  God's  great  to-morrow  and  educator  of  the  conscience 
of  humanity." 

President  Faunce  here  presents  the  most  serious  problem  that 
confronts  the  Christian  thinkers  and  educators  of  to-day;  namely, 
how  to  meet  the  demand  for  adequate  moral  and  religious  lead- 
ership in  the  great  forward  movements  of  God's  kingdom,  as 
well  as  in  the  worthy  ordinary  activities  of  modern  life.  I  know 
of  no  other  way  except  that  which  I  have  tried  to  point  out. 

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RELATION    OF   THE    SEMINARY   TO   THE    CHURCH. 

This  discussion  of  the  present  educational  ideal  of  the  ministry 
of  our  Church  naturally  leads  to  the  emphasis  that  should  be 
placed  upon  the  relation  between  the  Seminary  and  the  Church. 
It  is  clear  that  this  relationship  is  fundamental  and  vital. 

If  what  has  already  been  stated  in  favor  of  an  educational  ideal 
for  the  ministry  of  our  Church  is  accepted,  then  this  relationship 
demands  that  the  Seminary  should  specialize  its  work  and  edu- 
cate men  for  the  special  purpose  for  which  it  was  founded,  that 
they  should  become  efficient  preachers  and  pastors.  Specialization 
is  the  watchword  of  to-day.  If  the  medical  school  is  necessary 
to  the  profession  of  medicine,  if  the  law  school  is  essential  to  the 
legal  profession,  then  I  claim  that  the  theological  school  should 
also  keep  in  the  line  of  specialization,  with,  of  course,  a  broadened 
curriculum  suited  to  the  changes  and  demands  of  modern  life. 

The  work  of  the  Seminary  is  to  give  such  equipment  as  our 
Church  needs  and  demands  in  this  growing  age. 

Since  special  and  definite  ministerial  training  best  fits  men  to 
deal  with  the  variety  of  problems  of  modern  society  with  com- 
manding success,  then  the  value  of  the  relation  of  the  Seminary  to 
our  denomination  is  accentuated  many  fold. 

The  importance  of  Christian  education  in  our  Church  is  now 
receiving  commendable  attention.  I  believe  it  will  receive  in- 
creasing attention  in  the  future ;  for  we  must  support  denomina- 
tional colleges  for  the  sake  of  our  self-preservation  and  denomin- 
ational prestige.  And  these  colleges  must  be  positively  and  in- 
tensely Christian.  A  semi-Christian  college  in  a  Christian  de- 
nomination is  both  a  misnomer  and  a  misfit.  We  must  educate  our 
youth,  or  suffer  denominational  decadence.  We  are  under  the 
law  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest,  and  no  church  can  ignore  this 
law  and  survive  the  exactions  of  the  present  rigid  and  more  ele- 
vated standards  of  modern  society.  The  Church  will  come  and 
must  come  to  this  standard,  and  insist  upon  it,  if  she  would  ex- 
pand and  grow  with  the  growth  of  the  throbbing  complex  life  of 
this  wonderful  century. 

I  make  this  statement  in  regard  to  the  importance  and  value  of 
the  Christian  college,  in  view  of  another  statement  I  am  con- 
strained to  make  with  reference  to  the  value  of  our  theological 
school.  It  is  this :  I  look  upon  our  Seminary  at  this  time  in  our 
denominational  life  as  having  overshadowing  importance.  The 
word  "overshadowing"  may  seem  extravagant.  But  I  use  it 
thoughtfully  because  of  the  value  of  the  Seminary  as  a  special 
school  for  the  preparation  of  our  young  ministers  to  become  the 

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future  leaders  and  teachers  in  our  denomination.  To  me,  this 
emphasis  is  our  imperative  need.  To  ignore  this  need  or  to  treat 
it  trivially,  is  to  suffer  immeasurable  loss  of  efficiency  and  power. 

SOURCES  OF  SUPPLY. 

There  ought  to  be  100  students  or  more  in  this  Seminary  under 
special  training.  Why  should  not  this  Church,  with  the  constitu- 
ency of  300,000  members,  supply  this  number  each  year  ?  If  it  can 
be  done  then  it  ought  to  be  done.  It  will  be  done  if  the  proper 
proportion  of  students  shall  come  from  the  three  natural  sources 
of  supply. 

1.  The  Christian  home. 

The  home  is  a  divine  institution  with  the  most  sacred  relation- 
ships and  associations.  God  has  set  the  solitary  in  the  family.  He 
intends  that  he  should  be  worshiped  daily  at  its  altar.  Here  is 
where  family  religion  exerts  a  profound  influence  upon  its  mem- 
bers, during  the  impressionable  period  of  their  unfolding  life. 
There  is  tremendous  need  now  of  emphasizing  family  religion. 
We  need  to  get  back  to  the  New  England  idea  of  home  life.  In 
early  days  the  face  of  the  family  was  always  set  towards  the  min- 
istry. Parents  felt  especially  honored  in  having  one  or  more  of 
their  sons  in  the  ministry.  This  was  their  greatest  pride  and  joy. 
Now  a  change  has  taken  place  in  this  respect.  In  many  cases  the 
atmosphere  of  family  life  is  discouraging,  if  not  antagonistic  to 
this  high  calling.  There  are  thousands  of  excellent  homes  in  the 
church.  And  yet  in  very  many  of  these  homes,  numerous  worthy 
secular  influences  attract  their  attention  and  drown  the  voice  of 
God.  Nevertheless,  I  am  convinced  that  the  Christian  home  is  the 
recruiting  ground  for  the  ministry.  The  great  living  preachers  of 
to-day  trace  their  impressions  of  a  call  to  the  ministry  to  the 
religious  life  of  the  home,  where  the  songs  and  prayers  and  sweet 
lives  of  their  fathers  and  mothers  were  a  rich  benediction.  I 
could  wish  that  the  sentiment  in  all  the  Christian  homes  of  our 
Church  would  be  so  positive  that  the  glory  of  the  Christian  min- 
istry would  appeal  to  the  ambition  of  more  of  our  young  men  of 
strong  personality  and  talent,  to  serve  well  their  generation  in 
the  highest,  and  most  honorable  vocation  of  earth. 

2.  Annual  conferences. 

It  is  within  the  power  of  the  annual  conference  to  make  or 
unmake  preachers.  Everything  depends  upon  the  ideals  of  the 
conference  leaders.  If  their  ideals  are  high  and  insistent,  they 
will  turn  the  young  preachers  to  the  Seminary  for  special  train- 
ing.    Better  have  fewer  men  in  the  active  workers  than  to  thrust 

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them  forth  unprepared  and  unfitted  for  their  high  task,  and  thus 
subject  them  to  the  irritating  limitations  of  a  conscious  lack  of 
equipment.  The  place  for  young  men  unprepared  to  preach  and 
teach  divine  truth,  and  to  administer  the  affairs  of  the  kingdom, 
is  not  the  pastorate,  but  the  school.  Leaders  owe  this  interest 
to  the  licentiate  as  well  as  to  the  conference  which  looks  for  better 
leadership  and  ministration.  Mark  you,  I  would  not  put  the 
blame  upon  young  men  who  have  not  the  means  to  take  advantage 
of  the  school ;  but  surely  there  are  hundreds  of  young  men  in 
active  work  who  should  be  in  the  Seminary.  Many  of  them  are 
waiting  and  anxious  to  take  advantage  of  that  school ;  but  they 
have  not  the  means.  What  an  appeal  this  situation  is  for  well-to- 
do  laymen  in  our  Church  to  found  scholarships  for  the  benefit  of 
our  worthy  poor  young  ministers,  and  thereby  make  their  influ- 
ence immortal  and  abiding. 

3.     Our  colleges. 

Another  source  of  Seminary  supply  is  the  denominational  col- 
lege. Without  discussing  the  broader  scope  and  mission  of  Chris- 
tian education,  except  to  commend  it,  I  raise  the  question  of  the 
relation  of  our  Church  colleges  to  the  Seminary,  and  through  it 
to  the  educational  ideal  of  our  ministry. 

What  does  a  church  college  stand  for,  if  it  does  not  exist  for  the 
special  benefit  of  the  denomination  with  which  it  is  identified? 

If  the  present  demand  of  modern  life  insists  upon  this  high 
standard  of  equipment,  including  both  college  and  theological 
training  for  the  minister,  then  the  Seminary  and  Church  have  a 
right  to  look  to  that  source  for  its  recruits ;  especially,  a  fair  per- 
centage of  young  men  and  women  of  strong  personality  and  power 
of  leadership. 

It  is  not  enough  to  state  that  the  atmosphere  and  drift  of  the 
college  is  away  from  that  sacred  calling  to  other  more  pleasant 
and  lucrative  Christian  work.  The  fact  still  remains  that  we 
must  have  more  largely  an  educated  ministry  in  order  to  meet 
the  needs  of  our  Church  and  the  demand  of  the  times.  Where 
will  these  future  leaders  come  from  if  our  colleges  do  not  supply 
them  to  the  Seminary  for  further  special  training? 

There  are  conspicuous  examples  of  self-made  men  in  the  min- 
istry of  our  Church,  who  possess  fine  preaching  ability  and  power- 
ful leadership.  Let  us  not  discourage  them,  but  honor  them. 
Neither  should  we  discourage  those  who  are  facing  the  ministry. 
It  is  possible  to  be  radically  conservative  or  conservatively  pro- 
gressive ;  but  is  it  not  time  that  some  one  should  be  radically 
progressive  in  this  contention  for  an  educational  ideal  ministry? 

However,  we  must  be  sure  that  the  maintenance  of  this  minis- 

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terial  standard  shall  be  consistent  with  our  denominational  use- 
fulness and  efficiency,  during  the  period  of  advance  toward  this 
ideal. 

We  dare  not  break  with  the  people.  It  would  be  wisdom  to 
persuade  them  to  work  to  better  ideals  as  the  years  move  on.  But 
by  all  means  let  this  ideal  be  maintained. 

PROBLEM   OF   ENLARGEMENT. 

With  the  maintenance  of  this  ministerial  standard,  there 
comes  a  problem  of  material  enlargement  and  increased  facil- 
ities for  instruction  and  accommodation.  At  this  fortieth  anni- 
versary we  are  confronted  with  the  necessity  of  building  for 
the  future.  We  must  plan  for  larger  things.  Nothing  less 
than  expansion  will  command  the  generous  support  of  our 
moneyed  men,  and  the  pride  of  our  college  graduates.  Large 
contributions  and  bequests  will  be  required  and  should  be 
expected.  The  challenge  of  a  great  objective  is  necessary  to 
command  the  sympathetic  attention  of  our  Christian  laymen. 
They  will  then  respond  with  princely  gifts.  It  is  my  deep  con- 
viction that  Christian  education  in  our  denomination  is  of 
supreme  importance.  And,  moreover,  I  feel  sure  that  a  com- 
plete ministerial  equipment,  including  both  academic  and  theo- 
logical training,  will  do  more  to  increase  our  denominational 
efficiency  and  prestige  than  all  the  other  factors  of  our  Church 
life,  as  worthy  and  important  as  they  are;  recognizing,  of 
course,  that  the  crowning  element  of  a  complete  ministerial 
preparation  is  the  enduement  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

Much  is  now  said  about  the  decadence  of  the  Christian 
church  and  the  loss  of  the  Christian  pulpit ;  but  I  cannot  accept 
this  assertion  and  insinuation.  This  age  furnishes  a  magnificent 
opportunity  for  the  Christian  pulpit,  if  it  is  really  made  the  throne 
of  power  and  influence. 

Dr.  J.  Wilbur  Chapman  has  well  said,  "Never  was  there 
such  an  age  as  this  for  the  preacher."  Never  in  all  the  centur- 
ies has  the  prophet  of  God  had  such  an  opportunity  to  give 
tone  and  direction  to  religious  thought  and  activity  as  at 
this  time.  Never  has  he  had  such  a  chance  to  influence  the 
age  and  lift  it  to  higher  moral  ideals  and  more  heroic  move- 
ment for  the  advancement  of  Christian  truth  and  obligation. 
The  glory  of  the  Christian  ministry  appeals  to  the  noblest 
gifts  of  men.  It  is  sufficient  to  satisfy  the  ambition  of  the 
strongest  and  brightest  young  men  of  to-day  to  serve  well 
their  generation. 

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Its  glory  is  beyond  comparison.  Words  cannot  fully  express 
the  privilege  of  bearing  God's  message  to  men.  The  glory 
of  the  ministry  does  not  rest  essentially  in  the  office  bearer, 
but  rather  in  the  office  itself,  the  dignity  of  which  both  in- 
spires and  humbles  him,  who  is  privileged  to  preach  the  "un- 
searchable riches  of  Christ."  This  high  task  and  privilege 
means  a  magnificent  opportunity. 

Must  not  the  minister  preach  Christ?  Surely.  Christ  is  his 
central  theme.  It  is  his  preeminent  business  to  preach  it  with 
all  of  its  eternal  sanctions  and  issues. 

For  Christianity  is  Christ.  They  are  inseparable.  All  prog- 
ress lies  in  Christ.  All  hope  of  success  rests  in  him.  The 
mission  of  the  preacher  is  to  present  Christ  in  all  his  beauty, 
attraction,  and  glory. 

But  let  us  not  forget  that  the  privilege  and  opportunity  of 
the  prophet  of  God,  is  to  present  Christ  with  gifts,  developed 
and  trained  in  the  Christian  schools. 

WHAT    OF   THE    FUTURE? 

We  halt  to-day,  to  celebrate  the  fortieth  anniversary  of 
Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary.  The  purpose  is  not  so 
much  to  rejoice,  as  it  is  to  take  our  bearings  for  the  future. 

We  have  reason  to  be  proud  of  this  institution.  The  per- 
sonnel of  the  Faculty,  Manager,  alumni,  and  patrons  are  de- 
serving of  the  highest  praise. 

The  output  of  this  school  is  worthy  of  the  fullest  commen- 
dation. Everything  about  it  shows  signs  of  virility  and  ag- 
gressive life. 

But  we  dare  not  rest  satisfied  with  either  the  record  of  the 
past,  or  the  achievements  of  the  present.  The  spirit  of  satis- 
faction would  be  both  our  peril  and  our  weakness. 

To-day,  we  stand  upon  vantage  ground  for  larger  and  better 
things.  From  now  on,  our  denomination  will  lose  or  gain 
according  to  the  measure  of  our  vision,  and  our  courage  to 
press  toward  its  realization. 

We  have  a  great  future  before  us.  The  outlook  is  inspiring. 
We  are  not  ashamed  of  our  Church.  Her  spirituality,  her 
evangelistic  passion,  her  splendid  history,  her  intelligent  life, 
her  heroic  sacrifices,  her  intense  aggressiveness,  appeal  to 
our  loyalty  and  our  pride.  Her  expanding  life,  her  broadened 
and  broadening  vision,  her  larger  plans  to  carry  the  banner  of 
the  Cross  into  the  inviting  fields  of  the  homeland  and  into  the 

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far-away   ripening  harvests  beyond  the  sea,  are  sufficient  to 
inspire  and  charm  the  heart  of  every  child  of  Otterbein. 

And,  if  we  do  our  best  within  the  range  of  our  possibility 
and  opportunity ;  if  in  the  fuller  discovery  of  our  Church 
consciousness,  we  turn  our  eyes  away  from  the  past,  and 
face  the  challenging  appeals  of  the  future  with  a  new  pride 
and  courage  to  do  the  greater  things  before  us ;  if  we  shall  plan 
to  help  and  encourage  more  of  our  noble,  promising  young  men 
and  women,  to  proclaim  with  ability  and  impressiveness,  the 
message  of  God,  the  message  of  life,  of  love,  of  power,  of 
immortality,  then  we  may  be  sure  that  our  beloved  Zion  will 
rise  and  shine  with  increasing  luster,  and  march  forth  from 
conquering  to  conquest,  as  an  army  with  banners. 


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Rev.  Lewis  Davis,  D.D. 


Rev.  G.  A.  Funkhouser.  D.D. 


Rev.  Josiah  P.  Landis,  D.D.,  Ph.D. 


Rev.  George  Keister.  A.M. 


Rev.  Augustus  W.  Drury,  U.D. 


Rev.  John  W.  Etter,  D.D. 


Rev.  Samuel  D.  Faust,  D.D. 


Rev.  Walter  G.  Clippinger,  B.D. 


Rkv.  John  G.  Huber,  D.D. 


Rev.  T.  Balmkr  Showers,  B.D. 


Rev.  William  A.  Weber,  B.D. 


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Rf.v.  John  Kemp 


Rev.  Samuel  M.  Hippard 


Rev.  William  J.  Pruner 


Samuel  L.  Herr,  Esq. 


Daniel  R.  Miller,  D.D. 


William  J.  Shuey,  D.D. 


Charles  M.  Brooke,  D.D. 


Julius  E.  Fout,  D.D. 


Alumni  iRegteter 

TBonefcrake  etiological  ^eminatp 


1874 
Edward  Hamilton  Caylor 
William  Adair  Dickson 
William  Dillon 
Robert  William  Fryer 
Jerome  D.  Holtzinger 
Samuel  L.  Livingston 
William  Jasper  Pruner 
Jacob  H.  Sentman 

1875 

Jacob  W.  Bovey 
William  Henry  Clay 
Isaac  W.  dinger 
Marion  R.  Drury 
William  S.  Hayes 
Archibald  C.  Rice 

1877 
Byron  Beall 
Clark  B.  Beatty 
Watson  H.  Chandler 
Augustus  W.  Drury 
Parvin  M.  France 

1878 
A.  W.  Bishop 
J.  Weston  DeLong 
Thomas  H.  D.  Harrold 
Horace  D.  Herr 
Cyrus  J.  Kephart 
John  W.  Kilbourn 
Garret  S.  Lake 
Sherman  W.  McCorkle 
Richard  F.  Powell 
John  I.  L.  Ressler 
Andrew  K.  Root 
Franklin  P.  Sanders 
John  Simons 
Joseph  A.  Weller 

1879 
Jonathon  C.  Crider 
Darius  A.  Mobley 


1880 

James  W.  Hicks 
David  N.  Howe 
Adam  Rodabaugh 
John  G.  Steiner 

1881 
Simon  A.  Corl 
Joseph  Kirk 
John  W.  Lower 
Thomas  J.  Tone 
Chas.  B.  Whittaker 

1882 
Francis  Marion  Hartman 
George  Peter  Hott 
George  Martin  Mathews 
Joseph  H.  Mayne 
William  H.  Prentice 

1883 
S.  S.  Aikman 
Addison  Edwards  Davis 
J.  L.  Goshert 
Isaac  T.  Hott 
Charles  H.  Lemmon 
William  Henry  Mingle 
E.  D.  Price 
William  Sanford  Sage 
Mrs.  Esther  Balmer  Sage 
Henry  A.  Sechrist 
William  A.  Shuey 

1884 
Michael   Stein    Bovey 
Edgar  William  Bowers 
John  S.  Brown 
Samuel  D.  Faust 
William  Otterbein  Fries 
Benjamin  F.  Fritz 
John  B.  Hawkins 
John  G.  Hofacre 
J.  Oliver 
Fremont  Spain 
James  Turner 
L.  E.  Wilson 


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1885 

J.  M.  Bolton 

Samuel  Churchill  Coblentz 

Allen  Dunkelberger 

Daniel  Miller 

Mrs.  Eliza  M.  Miller 

James  H.  Richards 

Mrs.  Celina  S.  Richards 

Elmer  E.  Saul 

Henry  Fox  Shupe 

G.  W.  Taylor 

Zur  Abner  Weidler 

1886 
William  S.  Blackburn 
John  W.  Flory 
William  Ross  Funk 
J.  W.  Izor 
H.  C.  Keezel 
Harry  D.  Lehman 
Winfield  C.  Niswonger 
Wilson  C.  Rebok 
T.  H.  Simons 
William  Williamson 

1887 
Lewis  Bookwalter 
S.  E.  Glandon 
William  Benjamin  Hartzog 
Ella  Niswonger 
R.  L.  Swain 
Charles  Andrew  Thorn 
Charles  Weyer 
John  H.  Whistler 
William  Henry  Wright 

1888 
Luther  Olin  Burtner 
Horatio  S.  Cooper 
D.  G.  Davidson 
T.  J.  Gardener 
William  S.  Gilbert 
Paul  Heiligman 
Jacob  Wesley  Houseman 
Miss  Cassie  Niswonger 
John  F.  Shepherd 
Henry  B.  Spayd 

1889 

William  L.  Byers 
Henry  Doty 
J.  F.  Leffler 
Benjamin  A.  Sutton 


1890 
Eathan  G.  Bossier 
A.  L.  Brokaw 
Henry  Harness  Fout 
Abraham  S.  Hammack 
Alexander  N.  Horn 
John  G.  Huber 
Lowry  A.  McGrew 
James  W.  Sheperd 
Mrs.  L.  A.  McGrew 
William  M.   VanSickle 
Joseph  K.  Wagner 
Samuel  S.  Wagner 
Mrs.  Alice  B.  Wagner 

1891 

Vivian  Albert  Carlton 
Benjamin  F.  Cokely 
Benjamin  F.  Daugherty 
Joseph  Daugherty 
George  F.  Downey 
J.  Allen  Gilbert 
Olin  Bascom  Guiley 
Joseph  Kerr 
John  Edward  Kleffman 
Aaron  Albion  Long 
Charles  G.  Murphy 
Frederick  Powell 
A.  E.  Slesser 

1892 
Squire  T.  Beatty 
P.  O.  Bonebrake 
William  Clarke 
William  Cleaver 
Emory  Wilson  Curtis 
James  Andrew  Groves 
Thomas  J.  Halstead 
Elmer  U.  Hoenshel 
S.  S.  Hough 
H.  J.  Litzenberger 
Joseph  W.  Patton 
John  D.  Reiniger 
James  Milburn  Replogle 

1893 
Adoniram  J.  Benton 
Peter  Monroe  Camp 
Martha  Flexer  Camp 
Schuyler  Colfax  Enck 
Elmer  E.  Fix 
Mrs.  Fannie  Hiestand  Fix 
Julius  E.  Fout 


[44] 


George  T.  Griscel 
S.  Ellsworth  Hoffman 
Joel  B.  Mathias 
Frederic  P.  Rosselot 
Grant  L.  Shaeffer 
John  M.  Walters 
Edwin  S.  Weimer 

1894 

Cyrus  Newton  Crabbs 
Mrs.  Jennie  Crabbs 
John  Q.  Dickensheets 
John  C.  Gardner 
Theodore  Henry  Harman 
Edwin  H.  Hummelbaugh 
Levi  Orville  Oyler 
George  T.  Powell 
James  E.  B.  Rice 
John  T.  Roberts 
James  T.  Spangler 
W.  L.  Waldo 
T.  A.  Waltrip 

1895 
L.  O.  Blake 

John  Adam  Glossbrenner 
Robert  Reuben  Butterwick 
Alfred  L.  Colwell 
John  A.  Eby 
Charles  W.  Kurtz 
Jacob    Miller 
Mrs.  Ella  Norris  Miller 
Charles  W.  Recard 
Oscar  M.  Wilson 

1896 
Charles  W.  Brewbaker 
E.  O.  Burtner 
George  D.  Gossard 
J.  B.  Kirsch 
J.  C.  H.  Light 
Joseph  Martin  Phillippi 
John  M.  Prickett 
M.  M.  Rader 
William  W.  Rymer 
Maurice  B..Spayd 
Andrew  J.  Wagner 
Jacob  Ward 

1897 
David  S.  Eshleman 
W.  G.  Fisher 
Charles  E.  Fultz 
Jacob  A.  Gohn 


Katie  Koons  Prickett 
George  E.  Luke 
Jacob  H.  Sipe 

1898 
Grant  D.  Batdorf 
Charles  Bisset 
Warren  L.  Bunger 
William  T.  Frank 
Silas  Speincer  Kirtz 
Nelson  H.  May 
Thomas  W.  Perks 
Homer  K.  Pitman 
L.  C.  Smiley 
George  A.  Wahl 
Albert  Barnes  Wilson 

1899 
D.  F.  Dickensheets 
Harry  Henry  Haller 
Nathan  Harlan  Huffman 
Minnie  L.  M.  Huffman 
Charles  W.  Jameson 
Joseph  Robert  Knipe 
Ulyssa  Knipe 
Ephraim  C.  Petrie 
Wilbert  C.  Shupp 

1900 
James  A.  Circle 
Grace  Clendenen  Knipe 
Merritt  I.  Comfort 
John  Edgar  Knipp 
John  D.  Nisewonder 
Sidney  Rasey 
William  G.  Stiverson 
Charles  B.  Wingerd 

1901 
William  Stahl  Baker 
Thomas  Ambro  Barton 
Ethel  Bookwalter  Burtner 
Henry  A.  Buffington 
Otto  Whitmore  Burtner 
Arthur  W.  Denlinger 
Philo  Walker  Drury 
N.  P.  France 
Sheridan  Garman 
Frank  H.  Linville 
LaFayette  Rexrode 
Mrs.  Mattie  Rexrode 
Clinton  H.  Snyder 
Clarence  E.  Spore 


45] 


1902 
Edwin  J.  Blackburn 
J.  F.  Boyd 
B.  H.  Callin 
G.  I.  Comfort 
L.  B.  Cotterman 
Berton  E.  Emrick 
Charles  Ebenezer  Heisel 
William  Otterbein  Jones 
O.  E.  Knepp 
Thomas  V.  Newell 
Judson  F.  Pritchard 
Samuel  Edwin  Shull 
S.  S.  Smick 
Henry  Lee  Snyder 
Mrs.  Minnie  B.  Spore 
Ira  S.  Swezey 
William  Sherman  White 
S.  May  Whitehead 
Ivory  Zimmerman 

1903 

E.  H.  Barnhart 
Charles  N.  Broughman 
Walter  Gillan  Clippinger 
Joseph  Hastings  Harris 
Enoch  Pendleton  Huddle 
Arthur  F.  Knepp 
Harry  Edwin  Miller 
George  Mahlon  Miller 
John  Wilson  Owen 
Ulysses  S.  Grant  Renn 
Irvin  Eugene  Runk 
Alvin  Edgar  Shroyer 
Charles  E.  Snoke 
Josiah  F.  Snyder 
Eugene  Ellis  Williams 

1904 
Frank  B.  Church 
Alexander  F.  Davis 
Robert  Head 
A.  R.  Hendrickson 
K.  M.  Karnegie 
Charles  J.  Roberts 
Ulysses  McPherson  Roby 
Paul  A.  Miller 

1905 
Francis  M.  Davis 
Darius  C.  DeFoe 
Edgar  Green 
David  Heinlen 
Charles  F.  Meyer 


Frank  Bartram  Parker 
James  B.  Parsons 
Clarence  Alvin  Schlotterbeck 
Nina  Young  Sprecher 

1906 

Phineas  H.  Aldrich 
John  G.  Breden 
C.  O.  Callender 
Monroe  Crecelius 
Benjamin  F.  Cunningham 
Samuel  F.  Daugherty 
John  Harmon  Dutton 
Raymond  L.  Fletcher 
William  D.  Good 
Harry  H.  Heberly 
I.  Moyer  Hershey 
Estell  A.  Lilly 
J.  Ernest  Paddock 
H.  D.  Southard 
A.  K.  Wier 

1907 
George  W.  Bonebrake 
Daniel  D.  Brandt 
Otterbein  T.  Deever 
John  O.  Emrick 
John  H.  Graybill 
Logan  Harter 
Melvin  O.  McLaughlin 
Walter  C.  May 
Mrs.  J.  M.  Phillippi 
Benjamin  F.  Shively 
W.  S.  Wilson 
J.  C.  Wimmer 

1908 

Charles  E.  Ashcraft 
John  W.  Borkert 
Elmer  E.  Bundy 
William  Luther  Duncan 
Benjamin  F.  P'arris 
Charles  W.  Hendrickson 
Walter  M.  Jones 
George  W.  Kitzmiller 
Flora  C.  Kitzmiller 
George  William  Self 
Ernest  A.  Sharp 
Hannah  B.  Sharp 
Walter  Smith 
John  W.  Sprecher 
George  L.  Stine 
William  E.  Ward 
Ray  G.  Upson 


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Charles  A.  Weaver 
Osa  D.  Wellbaum 

1909 
Hugh  A.  Dierdorff 
Mabel  Drury 
Glen  Wilford  Emerson 
Lewis  M.  Hahn 
Maud  E.  Hoyle. 
Jasper  A.  Huffman 
Alden  E.  Landis 
Adda  D.  May 
R.  Etta  Odle 
M.  K.  Richardson 
Benjamin  D.  Rojahn 
John  W.  Shock 
Ralph  A.  Smith 
Charles  W.  Snyder 
William  A.  Weber 
James  A.  White 

1910 
Lizzie  Chappelle 
Raymond  P.  Dougherty 
Aerie  Valley  Fetters 
Clarence  R.  Fralick 
John  Caldwell  Goodrich 
Arthur  S.  Lehman 
George  Edward  McDonald 
James  Anderson  Robinson 
John  Balmer  Showers 
Nora  May  Vesper 
Matilda  Caroline  Weber 


1911 
Eliza  D.  Barton 
Maud  Billman 
Arthur  E.  Bittner 
Susan  S.  Borger 
LaFayette  Pence  Cooper 
Mrs.  L.  P.  Cooper 
Harley  W.  Franklin 
Miss  Geneva  Harper 
Taylor  A.  Garriott 
Clayton  Judy 
Edgar  M.  Leach 
Mrs.  Edgar  M.  Leach 
E.  Burton  Learish 
George  L.  McClanathan 
William  O.  Montague 
Charles  E.  Plack 
Margaret  E.  Propst 
Miss  Fanny  Shunk 
John  W.  Thomas 
Dudley  Reed  Wilson 

1912 

William  G.  Beamis 
William  C.  DeMuth 
Norman  L.  Linebaugh 
Oliver  Mease 
Charles  V.  Priddle 
George  M.  Richter 
Charles  W.  Shoop 
Mrs.  Charles  W.  Shoop 
Ethel  Amy  Walker 
Charles  L.  Williams 


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